Reclining-chair.



' P. G. TATE. REGLINING CHAIR. l APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8. 1907.

Patented May 18, 1909.

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FRANK TATE, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

RE CLINING-CHAIR.

Application led November 8, 1907.

Tor all whom. it may concern.'

Be it known that I, FRANK C. TATE, a citi- Zen of the vUnited States, residing in Des Moines, county of Polk, and State of Iowa,

have invented a new and useful lmprovej ment in Reclining-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a reclining chair to be operated by a person in a partially reclining sitting position without the necessity of his arising, either ,partially or entirely, from the chair, or without it being necessary to remove his weight from the back of the chair.

Another object is to provide a spring actue ated back, for the chair, which will automatically return to its upright position by the release of certain levers.

A further object is to provide such a chair in a simple, strong, durable and practically inexpensive construction.

The invention consists of certain novel details of construction hereinafter set forth,

pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1, shows a perspective view of the chair, the seat and a part of the side being removed. Fig. 2, shows a transverse sectional view taken on the line 2, 2, -of Fig. 1.

Referring to the embodiment illustrated, the reference numeral 10 is used to indicate the chair proper, which is provided with a back 11, mounted for radial movement, in bearings 12, and 13 respectively, secured on the uprights on the rear portion of the chair. The sides of the frame of the back extend below their respective pivotal mountings and, obviously, below the seat of the chair and loosely secured to the lower extremity of each side and extending forwardly therefrom, are arms 15 and 16 respectively, similar in every respect, their forward ends being connected by a cross bar 17.

Below the seat and on each inner side of the chair there is mounted a forwardly and downwardly projecting frame 18 and 19, respectively, said frames being provided with a slot 20 and 21, respectively, open at its rear end, and the cross bar 17 is designed to project into the said slots and be adapted for forward and backward movement therein and by construction the arms 15 and 16 are of such length that the cross bar 17 cannot come out of the said slots and the said slots are of suflicient length to provide for the back of the chair reclining to practically a Specification of Letters atent.

Patented May 18, 1:909.

Serial N0. 401,193.

! horizontal position. Secured to the rear l portion of the cross bar 17 are coil springs 22, extending rearwardly therefrom, the-ir rear ends being secured to a cross bar 28 at the rear of the chair. nhe cross bar 17 is l also provided. on its upper surface with an upwardly projecting raised portion 24.

Journaled in the stationary side pieces 25 and 26 of the chair at a point in the rear of the normal position of the cross bar 17, is a shaft 27, and projecting forwardly from the ends of said shaft, and just inside of their respective side pieces 25 and 26, are arms 2S and 29, said arms projecting to a point just inside the forward cross piece 3G, of the chair and being provided with notches 31 designed to receive the raised portion 241- of the cross bar 17.

The numerals 32 and 33 indicate the for ward uprights of the chair, and secured for upward and downward movement to the inner surface of each of said uprights, is a lever 34 and 85 respectively, the lower ends of each of said levers being in engagement with the under surface of the arms 28 and 29, respectively, and the upper end of each of said levers being rovided with a handle 36 and 37 respective y. By construction the handles of the said levers are designed to be immediately under their respective chair arms, as illustrated, and the upward movement of the said levers is designed to cause an up- 'ward movement of the arms 28 and 29, said upward movement being suflicient to release the raised portion 24 from the notches in the said arms.

A person sitting in the chair and desiring to recline grasps the handles 36 and 37 and moves the levers 34 and 35 upwardly thus moving' the notched arms 28 and 29 up wardly, and releasing the cross bar 17. The back is then free to move, the tension of the springs 22 being the only retaining force. *When the back of the chair is in the position desired the person releases the levers 34 and 35 and they and the arms 28 and 29 fall, by their own weight, into position with the raised portion 24 engaging the notches 31.

It is obvious by this construction that a person sitting in the chair does not have to move his body forward or get out of the chair to adjust its position.

I claim- 1. ln a reclining chair, a frame including side and end members, a back pivotally sel cured to said side members, a pair of down- Wardly inclined slotted members secured to said side members of the frame, a cross bar having its ends slidingly received in said slots of said pair of members, a raised portion on said cross bar, an arm secured at one end to each end of said cross bar and at its opposite end being pivoted to the loWer end of the back, springs secured to said cross bar and to one of said end members of the frame, a shaft having its ends journaled in said side members of the frame, adjacent the rear thereof, an arm at each end of said shaft projecting toward the front end of the chair, said last named arms being formed adjacent their free ends with rack teeth on their under sides to engage said raised portion of the cross bar, and means to engage the free ends of the last named arms to raise the same out of engagerient With said raised portion of the cross 2. In a chair, a frame including side and end members, a back pivoted to said side members, a pair of slotted guide members arranged along the side members of said frame at the front thereof, a cross bar having its ends slidingly received in said slots of said guide members, a air of arms connecting the lower ends of said aclr with said cross bar, a transverse shaft having partial rotary movement carried by the side members of said frame, a pair of arms carried by said transverse shaft having rack teeth to engage said cross bar, springs secured to the cross bar and the rear end member of the frame, and means to engage the free ends of said last named arms to raisesame out of engagement With said cross bar.v

3. In a reclining chair, a frame, including side and end members, a back pivoted to said frame, a pair of slotted guide members arranged along the side members of the frame at the front thereof, a cross Vbar having its4 ends slidingly received in said slots of the guide members, connecting means betweenA the lower end of said back and said cross bar, a transverse shaft having partial rotary movement carried by the side members lof the frame, an arm carried by said shaft having rack teeth to engage said cross bar, a spring secured to the cross bar and the rear end member of the frame, and means to engage said arm to raise same out of engagement with said cross bar.

FRANK C. TATE.V

Witnesses:

ZELL G. Ron, BLANCHE SEDGWIGK. 

